Hey all,I just happen to be a fascinated stamp collector, a lot of people might think that hobby is a bit old fashioned in times of high speed IT development but anyway...While I was screening the net about IT/ computer related stamps to get some ideas for my collection, I stumbled about this excellent website by a guy from South Africa where he presents his own collection regarding that field. This is the link: http://wvegter.hivemind.net/If there should be any interest I might also upload some stamp images related to computers/IT technology from my own collection and the www.Cheers

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Hey all, here is the image of a German stamp, dedicated to the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, it will be released on June 10th. He developed world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, more information about him can be found here:

And here is the image of a Soviet stamp, showing the combination of punched cards used as recording medium in early digital computers together with a more "modern" model-but remember this stamp was issued in 1986! still hope it can reflect the historical development!

Even given the fact that this stamp (actually stamp collectors call that format souvenir sheet, our stamp is in the left corner) featuring North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and a computer was issued back in 2002, the depicted computer seems pretty vintage!Nevertheless I have read that North Korea developed its own Linux version called "Red Star".

mehmet7 wrote:Even given the fact that this stamp (actually stamp collectors call that format souvenir sheet, our stamp is in the left corner) featuring North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and a computer was issued back in 2002, the depicted computer seems pretty vintage!Nevertheless I have read that North Korea developed its own Linux version called "Red Star".

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I have a a couple of those souvenir style stamp sheets laying around somewhere from years ago when I had a pen pal in Japan send me them... seem to remember them being of a lucky cat some other weird cartoon creature thing xD

I have a a couple of those souvenir style stamp sheets laying around somewhere from years ago when I had a pen pal in Japan send me them... seem to remember them being of a lucky cat some other weird cartoon creature thing xD[/quote]

This Macedonian stamp issued in 2004 to commemorate a summit on information technology is showing the binary number system's two-binary digits "0" and "1" used to process data i.e. for computer processor instructions.

I am not sure if I will be banned from this forum because of posting an image of the "unspeakable" on a stamp, nevertheless Palau decided to honor him with a stamp besides other famous people from the IT sector. So see the "dark side of force" on a stamp...